They are ghost ships — overturned wooden fishing boats 15 to 20 feet in length, waterlogged and half buried in the sand. According to the Japanese Coast Guard, the two boats washed up on December 13.

In 1886, the F.J. King sank in the middle of the night in Lake Michigan. Nearly 14 decades later, a citizen-science project led by Brendon Baillod put an end to the ‘ghost ship’ F.J. King’s perplexing ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a “ghost ship” that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the ...

Researchers discovered a 19th century “ghost ship” in Lake Michigan. The missing clue to the wreck’s location was hiding in ...

Sep. 27—MADISON, Wis. — In the spring of 1886, the three-master schooner F.J. King and crew left her berth in Morristown for her long sail and annual task of shipping cargo on the western Great Lakes.

A “ghost ship” that recently washed up on a Florida Panhandle beach was traced to a Texas man who’ll likely lose much of his life savings after purchasing the vessel he had hoped to sail around the ...